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Clockwise from left: Shubhayu Bhattacharyay, Min Jae Kim, James Occean, Michael Xie

Awards+Honors

Alumni, graduate students named Soros Fellows

Published April 18, 2024

They are among 30 recipients of the fellowships, which honor immigrants and children of immigrants with exceptional potential to make a difference in their fields

Undergraduate honors

Junior receives Truman Scholarship

Published April 18, 2024

The Truman Scholarship recognizes outstanding undergraduates who are pursuing careers in public service

Students on the DAVINCI+ team with their professor, who holds a phone so NASA engineers can participate via Zoom

Space science

Undergrads help NASA uncover the mysteries of Venus

Published April 8, 2024

Students are learning the ins and outs of the Venusian atmosphere and building a sensor for NASA's DAVINCI mission, thanks to the vision of APL planetary scientist Noam Izenberg and a small team of faculty experts

Headshots of Kyra Bowden and Grace Luettgen.

Undergraduate Honors

Two juniors named Goldwater Scholars

Published April 5, 2024

Goldwater Scholarship provides financial support to undergraduates pursuing research careers in STEM fields

A framed photograph of Pava LaPere sits on a table.

Entrepreneurship

'Nonstop, relentless, inspiring'

Published April 4, 2024

The FastForward U innovation hub will be renamed in honor of Pava Marie LaPere, a trailblazing entrepreneur both at Johns Hopkins University and in Baltimore who died last year

an orange and white cat stands on its hind legs to look out a window

Science shows Baltimore's cats are friendly little guys

Published April 1, 2024

Postdoc Charlotte Fare has conducted a semi-quantitative analysis of the cats of Baltimore, surveying the appearance and disposition of a subset of the city's felines